Speak about college and not mention love! Why, that’s akin to a sin. Because college was more about love than studies really! So yes, this post is about love and those love birds that flocked our campus.Oh well! Where do I begin? There was every type of love as you can imagine. But more than the love itself, it was observing the love birds that pleasured me the most. In Engineering the boy girl ratio is a skewed one. Computer Science was one of those streams where girls were more in number compared to streams like Electrical Engineering. Yet, we were just about fifteen girls in a class of sixty. So it only made sense that girls enjoyed a lot of attentions. While some became quickly involved and committed with older students or classmates, others enjoyed the attentions a bit more and yet others didn’t simply entertain it. But by the time we were in our third year, most of us were in a committed relationship! Imagine!Most followed a set pattern. They lived through the day by texting each other. Afternoon they met and spent the evening together, eating out, walking the campus or sometimes sitting down talking on those culverts. Then they returned to their respective hostels and then engaged in an elaborate telephonic conversation that often lasted through the wee hours in the morning.The second type was those who couldn’t keep their hands to themselves. They were often caught in dark corners of the road, behind the bushes. People often felt embarrassed to sit beside them in class, train, bus or auto rickshaw alike. They often gave the impression of breathing in each other breaths. Watching them had kept me worried for a long time about what I should do if A started behaving that way ever! Lot of funny scary embarrassing stories circulated these couples. I could never validate the truths and so won’t divulge here but they remained quite unfazed by all that.There was yet another type. Perhaps the type that repelled me most strongly. We called them the husband-wife type. They were so full of each other that they followed, “Don’t see others, don’t listen to others” with all their hearts! And if they both belonged to the same department, same year, you can imagine how annoying it used to get! Why, we had the misfortune of having one such couple in our class. They sat together during the lectures holding hands. They went to lunch and dinners “together” (at the same time) even though they lived in different hostels. The girl had a small induction stove in her room where she often cooked foods for her “man”. We hated her for not sharing those with us. True, we didn’t need to bother. We should have let them be. But during college days being nosy was “In”. And making everyone’s business your own was “Cool”! ;)
Love,
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